Cait's Garden

If you were an artist working with paint instead of flowers, you’d appreciate the way these two plants enhance each other in the garden. Orange and purple might make for a too bold painting for inside your house, but in the garden, what a dynamite combination it is. Here we have Stachys Monieri “Hummelo” (also known as Betony) in the foreground and Asclepias Tuberosa (Butterfly Weed) in the background. Both plants are a little exotic. Butterfly Weed is that true, hot, perfect orange and Stachys has those stiff, bottle-brush purple flowers. They are tough, bold plants that thankfully bloom at the same time, although the Butterfly Weed will outlast the Stachys by quite a few weeks. Still, at present, this combo is a garden win for me, the bees, and this blog.